Machine for wrapping and tying cylindrical bodies



A. SCHLAEPFER MACHINE FOR WRAPPING AND TYING CYLINDRICAL BODIES May 31, 1932.

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MACHINE FOR WRAPPING AND TYING CYLINDRICAL BODIES Filed Aug. 31, 1927 19 Sheets-Sheet 19 Patented May 31, 1932 UNITED sTATEs PATENT oF-Frca ARNOLD SGHLAEPFER, OF NEUHAUSEN, NEAR SGHAFFHAUSEN, SW ITZERLAND, A8-

SIGNOR TO SCHWEIZERISCHE INDUSTRIE-GESELLSCHAIT, F NEUHAUSEN, NEAR SGHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND, AND LEGLANCHE LAND S. A., OF YVERDON, SWITZER- MACHINE FOR WRAPPING AND TYING CYLINDRIGAL BODIES Application filed- Angust 81, 1927, Serial No. 216,703, and in Switzerland September 3, 1928.

- The present invention relates to a new and improved machine for wrapping small cyllndrical bodies such as carbon bodies of electrical dry storage batteries in fabrics and tying it with a strin The main ObJect of the invention is to provide an automatic machine which will do the work done until now by hand labor. A further object consists in the provision of a machine which will perform the wrapping and the tying exactly, rapidly and with no loss of material.

The invention consists in the means for wrapping cylindrical bodies one by one into pieces of fabric out from a band and in the means for tying. with a string, the ends thereof being knotted to keep the wrapping firmly on the body.

A machine embodying my invention consists of the various features, combinations of features, and details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings a machine is shown in a diagrammatical manner, adapted to wrap and to tie cylindrical bodies having a cylindrical reduced neck on one end. Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan thereof.

Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation partly in section.

Fig. 4 is a detail elevation, partly in section, of means to bring the wrapper above the body, to cut a piece of the wrapping material of appropriate shape. i

Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a detail elevation, partlyin section, of mechanism including the pair of scissors to cut off the wrapper and the means to operate the same.

Fig. 7 is a plan of the same.

Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation of part of the machine showing the means to bring the body successively to the difierent positions to be wrapped in and tied.

- Fig. 9 is a detail elevation, partly in section. of the means to fold the wrapper and to form a bag thereof.

Fig. 10 is a similar view of the means to bring successively the body into its different Fig. 5 is a plan of the mechanism shown in partly in secpiece of fabric a bag of the piece of fabric wound on the body.

Fig. 16 is a similar view of the means shown in Fig. 10.

Fig. 17 is a detail plan of the means to grip the wrapped-inbody and illustrates the successive positions of the body with reference to said gripping device.

Fig. 18 is a detail elevation, partly in secgioi, of the means to grasp and to hold the Fig. 19 is a detail'plan of the same.

- Fig. 20 is a detail elevation, partly in section, of the means to operate the press bars by which the body is held and fed.

Fig. 21 is a detail plan of the same.

Fig. 22 is a detail elevation, partly in section, of the two pairs of tongues alternately gripping the body, the means to operate said pair of tongues and of the device to feed the string, by which the wrapper is tied.

Fig. 23 is a detail plan of the same.

Fig. 24 is a detail elevation, partly in section, of the means to grip the string and to draw it from the spoo Fig. 25 is a detail side elevation, partly in section, of the means to rotate one pair of Eolggues while the string is wound on the o y. r

Fig. 26 is a diagrammatic front elevation of the string guide and gripping device. Fig. 27 is a detail side elevation of the same.

Fig. 27 a is a side elevation partly in section,

of the means to bring the end of the string into position while the string is applied to the wrapper.

Fig. 28 is a diagram of the mechanism 

